The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1887-11-02
He Passes Away to His Long Rest
Yesterday.
a sketch of ais Life and WOrk-AP-
pOintments. Decorations. Etc
Hawaiiams Lose a Great
Frfend-Arrangeme
For the Funeral.

| Yesterday afternoon at 2 AS O'Clock,
Mr.. Justice Fernandez breathed his last
| at. the residence of his son-in-law, Capt.
| John Fl. Brown, Beretania street, after
| long and painful illness. The immediate
cause of death was cancer in the mouth.
| 1t first showed itself in September, 1886,
| and in November OF the same year he
came to Honolulu and underwent an
| operation. Early this year another
operation was performed, but he got no
better and finally succumbed after most
intense agony. Everything possible was
done to alleviate his sufferings by loving
hands. Though a terrible sufferer, he
never complained, and bore all with a
| patience that was wonderful. He was
tenderly nursed by his daughter, Mrs.
]. FL. Brown, during his last days. Since
last Thursday he was unconscious.
| Previous to that he would always want
! to be writing, sometimes to his sister
who is living in Sweden, while at other
times he would forget himself and write
letters to dead relatives. He was always
talking about Lahaina, and often inquired
why it was he was in Honolulu. His
| love for the native race was very great,
and he was held in the highest respect
and esteem throughout the group. While
Circuit Judge of Maui he commenced
writing and studying, and has collected
| together large number of old Hawaiian
legends and meles which he has put
into shape. He was great student of
| genealogy, and has left behind him
large number of valuable manuscript
matter He is the author of 'Polynesian
Races a scientific work in three vol
umes, publised in London. AS magis-
trate he was firm, and his decisions were
such that very few appeals were noted.
His knowledge of the Hawaiian language
was perfect.
The deceased was born OH the island
of Oeland, Sweden, November 4, 1872,
consequently if he had lived until Friday
would have been exactly seventy-fve
years of age. He first came to the ISL
ands in 1888, and after short stay went
away on whaling cruise in a whaler,
returning in 1912. He then commenced
| to plant coffee in Nuuanu Valley for DR..
! T. G.. B. Rookie, who adopted the late
Queen Emma. In 1847 he was engaged
surveying DIR. Rockies lands. The same
year he was married in Honolulu to
Pinao Alanakapu, Chiefess of the
| island of Molokai, who died in 1857.
They had four children, three girls and
one boy Mrs. j. II. Brown is the only
one living. Two years later, at the
height of the gold fever, he went to Cal
! ifornia, but returned in three or four
months not well satisfied with his trip.
| In 1852 we find him editing the
''Weekly Argus" with Matthew K
Smith, publisher. Two years later a
change took place in the paper,
and it was hereafter brought out
as the "New Era and Weekly Argus"
He succeeded G. G.. Hopkins as editor
! of the tfPolynesian,' which position he
held up to 1864, when he was appointed
Circuit Judge of Maui. In 1865 Kane
hameha V appointed him Inspector
| General of Schools in the Kingdom. He
was the first Inspector General in the
history of the Islands. In 1870 III. r.
Hitchcock was appointed Inspector Gen
eral of Schools, and in May, 1871, the
subject of our sketch was reappointed
| Circuit Judge of Maui, which position
he held until the latter part of 1886. On
December 28th of that year His Majesty
the King appointed him to be Fourth
! of the Hawaiian Islands. The appoint
ment was duly gazetted in the PACIFIC
COMMERCIAL ADVERTISER December 29th,
and the following editorial comment
made in the same issue:
The appointment of Mr.. Abraham For
nander to be Fourth Associate Justice of
the Supreme Court will commend itself to
every one who has any knowledge of the
legal and constitutional history of the
country. Judge Fernandez is man who
has made this country known In literary
and scientific circles throughout the world
He has done more to preserve the history
and traditions of the Hawaiian race than
any other man. This was his life work;
and it will live long after his body has
mouldered into clay, and perhaps even
after the institutions we now conserve
have been swept away by the bosom of
utilitarian progress.
Be this as it may, Mr.. Fernandez has
well and honorably earned his promotion
to the Supreme Bench by his untarnished
record as Judge of the Second District
Court of Maui, and by his knowledge of
Hawaiian law and practice. 1t is to be re-
GREETED that he is in delicate health which
is a serious consideration for man at his
, advanced years; but his great natural
vigor may yet secure for him many years
of honor and respect. That it may SO
turn out to be the case is our earnest hope,
as will be that of all who know, and there